Winner of the Women in Art, H.S.O.A. Emerging Abstract Painting Prize

Artist painting in a studio with abstract art on walls and supplies on tables.

About

Lindsey Tyson is an award-winning visual artist based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where she also grew up. With a background in textile design and over three decades of creative experience, she began her career in the automotive industry, designing woven fabrics, before developing a successful practice in contemporary textile art.

Her deep love of texture, materiality and process runs through all her work. In recent years, she has turned her focus fully to painting, bringing the same curiosity, craftsmanship and surface sensitivity that have always shaped her creative approach.

About the Work

Lindsey’s current practice centres on abstract painting, inspired by landscape, weather and the overlooked beauty of everyday surroundings – the shapes, lines, surfaces and rhythms that often go unnoticed.

Her work is both intuitive and physical, built through layers of colour, texture and movement. Marks are swept, scraped, stained, erased and revealed, allowing chance and material behaviour to play an active role in the process.

Rather than depicting place directly, Lindsey seeks to distil atmosphere and feeling – the meeting point between external surroundings and internal response.

A restrained palette often heightens the sense of contrast, tension and presence, while layered surfaces reveal traces of earlier marks and moments.

Through this process, her paintings hold a sense of time, transformation and quiet energy. They invite slow looking, encouraging viewers to find their own connections within the work.

You can find Lindsey’s recent history below, or click here for her CV, including selected exhibitions, publications and professional experience.

For inquiries, please get in touch at art@lindseytyson.com

Represented Artist

Novus Gallery, Harrogate

Seagull Gallery, Filey

Art Exhibitions

Coming soon

  • North Yorkshire Open Studios 6-7 & 13-14 June

  • Gallery Four, St. Abbs - from June 27th

  • Black, White & Grey, Tinker Gallery, Ilkley – August

2026

  • OPO Open, Old Parcels Office, Scarborough

2025

  • Still Light – Duo show with Louise Ventris, The Eye Room, Leeds

  • Winter North Yorkshire Open Studios, Scarborough

  • Tarpey Open – Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington

  • New Light Summer Show – Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley

  • Woodend – Solo Show – Scarborough

  • We Are Here - Old Parcels Office & Gallery 33, Scarborough

  • North Yorkshire Open Studios, Scarborough

  • Dark Skies and Nocturnal Life – Inspired by Gallery, North York Moors, Danby

  • Open Exhibition – Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (RCA), North Wales

2024

  • Featured Artist, Studio Vault, Settle

  • ‘The Wednesday Four’, Pyramid Gallery, York

  • ‘Small Works’, Tinker Gallery, Ilkley

  • 100th Exhibition, Art is an Idea, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington.

  • North Yorkshire Open Studios, Scarborough

  • ‘Colours of the Sea.’ Solo, H.S.O.A. Hampstead

  • Open Exhibition - OPO, Scarborough

For more information, take a look at Lindsey’s  CV